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Children show their drawings in the shelter for migrant families of Roca de Salvación, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on April 14, 2021. Jean Gough, UNICEF Regional Director of UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean, visited Roca de Salvació, which is a UNICEF-supported shelter where NGO La Jugarreta carry out psycho-social support activities for children. The activities photographed belong to the objective of the week, which was "Caring for the environment", where migrant children and adolescents learn the importance of protecting the environment.

“I was heartbroken to see the suffering of so many young children, including babies, at the Mexican border with the U.S.,” said Gough. “Most of the shelter facilities I visited in Mexico are already overcrowded and cannot accommodate the increasing number of children and families migrating northward. We are deeply concerned that living conditions for migrant children and mothers in Mexico could soon deteriorate further.”

Since the start of 2021, the number of migrant children reported in Mexico has increased sharply from 380 to nearly 3,500. An average of 275 additional migrant children find themselves in Mexico every day, after being detected by the Mexican authorities, waiting to cross into the US or being returned, according to UNICEF estimates.
Together with its partners, UNICEF has been scaling up its humanitarian response across Central America and Mexico in the past months, with increased presence at the Mexico-U.S. border. But humanitarian needs are on the rise and are expected to remain high in the coming months.